IMPACT Investment Awards 2025

BlueOrchard Finance emerged as the judges' favourite in two categories this year, taking the Asset manager of the year - large and Fund of the year - private debt awards.

In just two years, Acre has secured $100 million in anchor commitments from the European Investment Bank, FSDAi, IDC, and other institutional and impact investors. During the eligibility period, it committed $25 million across three investment themes: Health, Food & Water Scarcity; Renewable Energy; and Sustainable Cities.

Solas Capital has leveraged its experience in energy-as-a-service business models to deploy capital across a range of building energy efficiency projects.

The judges for this year's Environmental Finance IMPACT Investment Awards celebrated the $82.5 million US Property Acquisition fund (US PAF) - led by Habitat Capital and managed by Enterprise Community Loan Fund - winning the award for impact measurement and metrics.

Danish offshore wind company Ørsted scooped the impact reporting award for its reporting following its position as the world's first energy company to issue a blue bond.

Morningstar's 'SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 Funds in Review' is a quarterly series offering the latest insights and analysis on the €11.7 trillion ($13.6 trillion) EU open-end fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) market under the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

US sustainability and impact advisory firm, Turbo Net Zero, wins this category thanks to its work supporting more than 50 impact-focused GPs overseeing over $100 billion in assets under management.

Bridging the volunteer and business sectors, Mirova Foundation has focused its efforts in the past year on biodiversity, climate and inclusion.

As of 30 June 2025, 34% of the Praxis Impact Bond Fund ($362 million) was allocated towards positive impact bonds (green bonds, social bonds, sustainability bonds, etc.) and 173 total impact positive impact bonds were held in the Fund. $32 million positive impact bonds were purchased year-to-date.

Builders Vision - the family office Lukas Walton - has been named family office of the year.

Marsham Investment Management secured the fixed income fund of the year award for its flagship Transitional Issuers Strategy funds.

Launched in 1988, Jupiter Ecology Fund claims to be one of the UK's longest-standing sustainable equity funds.

The winner of multi-asset fund of the year is Schroders Capital Climate+ Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAF), a global multi-private asset, climate impact solution, created to capture the investment opportunity in private markets driven by climate change.

CBC Group's 'Better Healthcare for All through Impact-Driven Private Equity' initiative is a healthcare-focused private-equity platform which invests in businesses that expand access, improve affordability and strengthen patient outcomes across Asia-Pacific.

BTG Pactual's Timberland Investment Group has made tremendous progress on its $1 billion Latin American reforestation strategy, surpassing over $500 million in capital raised earlier this year.

Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT's Rooted in Regeneration (RNR) Series 2 impact pool provides financing for socially disadvantaged farmers in the US transitioning to organic, regenerative practices.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) was the judges' choice in three categories this year.

Developed by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM), supported by catalytic capital from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Vertelo is a blended finance platform that seeks to support the decarbonisation of India's transport sector and improve urban air quality.

The winner of this year's award for Impact project/investment of the year for education is LemmaTree, an investment firm founded by Temasek, which was recognised for its ongoing partnership with India's Schoolnet Group.

Launched by British International Investment in July 2023, Growth Investment Partners (GIP) Ghana is an investment platform providing patient, flexible local-currency financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), filling gaps left by traditional banks.

Evercity has been awarded impact project/investment of the year - infrastructure at this year's IMPACT Investment Awards for its 'Pearl Carbon Platform', which marks Africa's 'first' sovereign digital carbon origination infrastructure.

London-based Archipelago Ventures has been awarded Impact project of the year in the pollution and waste management category, thanks to its innovative approach to textile waste

For its third year, Patron Capital has been awarded Impact project/investment of the year - real estate, for its gender-lens social impact real estate fund.

South African banking group Absa clinches the award for its work on Africa's largest standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), which enables grid stability and load balancing in South Africa.

At 25-kilometres long, The Thames Tideway Tunnel - otherwise known as London's 'super sewer' - is the UK's largest ever water infrastructure project and the most significant intervention to tackle sewage pollution in the River Thames in over 150 years.

Bridgin Power, a Bangladesh-based gas power generation platform established by Actis under its $6 billion Energy 5 fund, has embedded community engagement into its business model through targeted local initiatives.

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking has led the field in South Africa by publishing sectoral glide paths, formulae that define the asset/allocation mix of a target-date fund, reinforcing Nedbank's commitment to achieving net-zero by 2050 and eliminating fossil fuel exposure by 2045.

The African impact initiative of the year award goes to Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity & impact-oriented private equity firm Amethis for their investment in the Moroccan sustainable agriculture firm Magriser.

Pakistan's first Agri-infrastructure Sukuk was arranged by BankIslami Pakistan in July 2025 with a 100% credit guarantee provided by infrastructure credit enhancement guarantee company, InfraZamin Pakistan.

The Leapfrog Alliance, launched by Energy Peace Partners in 2024, aims to strengthen corporate incentives for clean energy procurement that helps expand energy access in underserved, under-electrified regions.

Investments will range from €100,000 ($116,400) to €1 million. All projects will go through ESG and impact screening processes aligned with daphni's methodology and Article 9 Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requirements.

CataCap is a technology platform that enables foundations, donor-advised funds (DAFs), family offices, and others to channel a portion of their capital into high-impact, mission-aligned investments.

Judges were impressed with CaixaBank's work to address the "critical, but hard to track" issue of supply chains, after it developed a product they described as "scalable and measurable".

The ESG/impact fixed income team at Nuveen picked up the asset manager investment team of the year award after being praised for delivering "real impact at meaningful scale," by an IMPACT Investment Awards judge.

Wellers Law Group was chosen by Environmental Finance judges as the winner of Law firm of the year category following an eventful year.

NatureAlpha has undergone a revamp of its data to utilise the transformative power of AI.

The Dutch pension fund, investing via APG as its fiduciary manager, plans to invest €30 billion in the climate transition by the end of the decade - a third of which will be in impact investments.

Philippe Zaouati, founder and chief executive officer of Mirova, has been named Personality of the year in this year's IMPACT Investment Awards, as judges recognised the firm's "leading role" in the sustainable finance community.

IMPACT Community Capital is an affordable multifamily housing debt investment manager in the US with 25 years of sector-specific experience.

This year's Re/insurer of the year award once again goes to Zurich Investment Group - having won every year in this category since 2022.

The judging panel was impressed by Revaia's tight focus on governance, integration and measurable impacts as well as its scalable approach to rolling out new ESG initiatives.

Gratien Davasse is helping shape the future of biodiversity and nature-related finance. His work sits at the intersection of research, advisory, innovation, and market design - with a particular aim to advance how financial institutions understand and act on nature.